How To Achieve Your GoalsAn interactive workshop for meetings, conferences, training and special events
Public Workshop Schedule:
Coming soon: Watch for our program in the Boulder, Colorado area!
People and organizations thrive on several key factors. Leadership, communication, creativity, and productivity expertise and skill contribute to success. Knowing how to perform at your best is important; acting on what you know is critical. Hard work and a sense of vision and purpose combined with relentless action are the keys to success. But nothing is more important than knowing how to set and achieve powerful goals.
This workshop provides keys to how to achieve your goals. Whether you are a business professional, artist, entertainer, educator, health care worker, or anyone with the desire to achieve more for yourself, for your organization, and for the improvement of the world, one of your best strategies for getting there is to constantly focus your dreams and ambition with powerful, passionate, achievable goals.
Program Highlights
When you book or attend How To Achieve Your Goals you can expect a lively, humorous, and motivating message that includes:
- What type of goal-setter are you?
- What do the most successful goal achievers say about setting and achieving goals?
- What are the facts on goals?
- What's so smart about SMART goals?
- How many goals should you set at a time?
- What prevents people from achieving their goals?
- What are the three most important things to do right now to move toward success at achieving your goals?
- How can you best develop distinctive values that will help you achieve your goals?
Ten Key Qualities
How To Achieve Your Goals shares insights and opportunities on ten key qualities that lead to increased creativity, communication, motivation, leadership, and results:
Giftedness: All people have talents and gifts that can be developed to help them achieve their goals.
Action: Sharing our talents and gifts encourages happiness in our selves and in others. Encouraging others to share their gifts creates mutually enjoyed energy for success.
Communication: Making every conversation meaningful, open, and honest facilitates intentional and successful results.
Exploring: Our gifts and our lives are meant to be explored, utilized, shared, optimized, and transformed. Life is a learning adventure. Opening ourselves to the spontaneous and to the unexpected creates vast opportunities for learning and success.
Practice: Achievement takes practice! Embrace imperfection and grow from there!
Love: Love is a renewable, limitless resource. Love encourages more love. We are free to choose a loving response to any interaction. We, and others, benefit every time we choose a loving response.
Service: The essential question is, "How can I help?"
Encouragement: Lifting, supporting, applauding, rewarding, and recognizing others increases practice and sharing.
Persistence: Staying motivated through each learning experience and relentlessly working to achieve your goals.
Leadership: Sharing inspiration and responsibility with the courage it takes to achieve success.
The Five Step Process for How To Achieve Your Goals
Knowledge is the first part of achieving your goals. Here is a a five step IDEAL plan, developed from our extensive experience and research into creating success. Each step includes one key question to ask yourself for focus and direction.
1. Identify your dream.
2. Drop whatever stands in your way.
- What is your dream?
3. Express a plan for success to people who matter.
- What stands in your way?
4. Act relentlessly on your plan.
- How will you achieve your dream?
5. Learn from feedback every day.
- What's next? What will you do next to work your plan?
- What have you learned today?
How Dercar and Smith can help
That's our recommended process. In theory, you now have the knowledge that you need to get moving and create more success in your life. Many people will do exactly that, and that helps us to achieve one of our biggest goals: to help as many people as possible to achieve their goals.
But sometimes knowledge is not enough. Sometimes we need help with our plan. Sometimes, to create meaningful success we need the support, feedback, and coaching of a great team to help. Dercar and Smith can be that team for you.
Our years of experience and passion for learning can be a powerful ally in your plan for success. We understand that success must be defined by each person and that it is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve your ideal life on your own. We can help.
We help our clients to create deeper conversations, compassionate courage, and authentic, powerful performance skills. Using a combination of activities, exercises, and inspiration from business and the arts, we can help you to move forward relentless toward the achievement of your goals.
Whether it is your goal to develop your professional career, your personal life, your team or your organization -- we can help. We distill the finest information and inspiration from the world of self-development and goal achievement to provide you with the most useful, participative, and enjoyable program you are likely to ever experience. It is our goal to provide you with the best coaching and training that you have ever enjoyed.
Our coaching, consulting, workshops, and weekly programs can help you focus, validate, reflect, plan, and act forward relentlessly to develop productive habits and drop those barriers to success that get in your way. We provide you with insights, feedback, tools for success, inspiration, and coaching to help you create a path for success, stay on that path, and work that path to success.
Are you ready to move forward?
Your Benefits for Attending Our "How To Achieve Your Goals"
No Risk To You
- Discover what matters most to you and act on it everyday
- Set meaningful, life-affirming goals
- Create a plan that you stay with and follow
- Achieve your goals
- Develop your career
- Improve your communication skills
- Develop a sense of compansionate courage and bring out the true leader within you
- Create and sustain a pattern of achievement and success
- Perform better than you ever have before
- Recognize, categorize, and utilize feedback everyday
- Learn from your experiences and apply your learning to your plan for success
- Enjoy the company of high achieving peers who are also on the road to success
- Create friendships that develop authentic open communication
- Learn ways to live authentically and with a profound sense of purpose
- Increase your determination
- Maximize your motivation
- Act with confidence
We stand behind our work. We want to help as many people as possible to achieve their goals and we know that we can help, but if you are not satisfied with our programs for any reason we will refund your investment.
What To Expect During "How To Achieve Your Goals"
Who Should Attend
- Meaningful conversations with your peers about your most important goals
- Highly interactive individual and group learning activities
- Stimulating conversation
- Insights from your peers and group coach
- Creative techniques and motivators
- Instant Assessments that reveal your greatest opportunities
- Processes to help you pick, prioritize, and powerize your goals
- Practice tools for optimizing your transactions and relationships as you drive forward to better results
- Creative artists, actors, and musicians who are looking to develop an edge that will lead to success
- Business professionals seeking a way to take their business and career to the next level of accomplishment
- Managers, supervisors, and leaders who seek to energize their teams and drive toward improved results
- Human resource professionals looking for a program to move performance management forward to a energized culture that will achieve its goals and create success
Interested?
How To Achieve Your Goals is 3 hours long. You will walk away with a new sense of the importance of goal setting and achievement and with three key action steps that will set you on the road to achieving your goals.
How To Achieve Your Goals is great for...
What To Expect
- Large organizations seeking to improve their results
- Conferences
- Personal development retreats
- Community organizations
- Fraternal orgnization meetings
- Churches and community centers
- Corporations seeking to develop their people
You can expect a motivational and practical look at setting and achieving the kind of goals that make a real difference in people's lives. Presented by Doug Smith, successful business leader, musician, actor, consultant and coach, you will see and hear a lively and humorous look at the endless possibilities that are offered to those who are intentional and attentive to their goals.
Using a blend of action learning, story telling, dramatization, improvisation, and motivational speaking, Doug will energize your audience and set the stage for new levels of success in your organization.
Based on over 20 years of successful team building, training, coaching, managing, and consulting, How To Achieve Your Goals will build on your group's knowledge of goal achievement and focus your audience on these key areas of success.
- Knowing when to set a goal and when not to
- How to keep your focus on the most important goal
- How to prioritize your goals
- Knowing what limits to set and what limits to set aside
- Working with the types of people who help you achieve your goals
- Uncovering the barriers to goal achievement and discovering how to break thru those barriers to success
Interested?
Public Workshop Schedule:
Coming soon: Watch for our program in the Boulder, Colorado area!
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